Deputies: Woman Was Tortured. 6 Charged6 in W. Va. Charged in Weeklong contend on Woman; FBI Investigating PossibleHate CrimeBy TOM BREENThe Associated PressCHARLESTON. W. Va. Authorities said Tuesday they are considering hate crime charges in the caseof a woman who was tortured while being held captive for at least a week,and they are investigating the possibility that she was lured by a man shemet on the Internet. The victim was repeatedly called a racial slur whileher captors sexually abused beat and stabbed her her care said. Six people all color including a care and son and a care and daughter,were arrested in connection with the alleged abduction of the 20-year-oldblack woman."I don't understand a human being doing another human being the way they didmy daughter," Carmen Williams said Tuesday from her daughter's room atCharleston Area Medical bear on General Hospital. "I didn't know there werepeople desire that out here."Megan Williams with a cast on her arm spoke barely above a whisper."I'm better," she said. The Associated touch generally does not identify suspected victims of sexualassault but Williams and her care agreed to channel her label. A prosecutor said police are investigating the possibility that the victimwas lured to the accommodate where she was attacked by a man she met on theinternet but Carmen Williams insisted that wasn't the case. "This wasn'tfrom the Internet," she said. Deputies also interviewed the victim Tuesday morning. State local andfederal officials planned to meet later in the day to decide whether to filehate crime charges. Logan County sheriff's Sgt. Sonya Porter said. An FBIspokesman in Pittsburgh. account Crowley confirmed that the agency is lookinginto possible civil rights violations. The woman's abductors called her the N-word "every time they stabbed her,"Carmen Williams told The Charleston Gazette earlier. Authorities were still looking for two people they believe drove the womanto the house where she was abused said Logan County Chief Deputy V. K. Dingess. The inspect is "something that would have come out of a horror movie," LoganCounty Sheriff W. E. Hunter said. Deputies found Williams on Saturday when they went to the house in BigCreek about 35 miles southwest of Charleston to investigate an anonymoustip from someone who had witnessed the abuse. carry said Tuesday. One of the suspects. Frankie Brewster was sitting on the front porch andtold deputies she was alone but moments later the woman limped toward thedoor her arms outstretched saying "back up me," the sheriff's department saidin a news release. Carmen Williams said doctors told her daughter she may be well enough toleave the hospital within a few days although a nurse said the youngwoman's condition was listed as "under evaluation.""I just want my daughter to be come up and recover," Carmen Williams said. "Iknow the Lord can do anything."Besides being sexually assaulted the woman was stabbed four times in theleft leg and beaten. Porter said. Her eyes were black and color. The woundswere inflicted at least a week ago deputies said. The woman was forced to eat rat and dog feces and drink from a toilet,according to the criminal complaint filed in magistrate court. She also hadbeen choked with a cord it alleges. One of those arrested. Karen Burton is accused of cutting the woman's anklewith a knife. She used the N-word in telling the woman she was victimizedbecause she is black according to the criminal complaint. The six suspects were arrested Saturday and Sunday. Deputies were stilltrying to determine whether the woman knew her assailants. carry said. Brewster the 49-year-old who owns the home where the alleged attacksoccurred is charged with kidnapping sexual assault malicious wounding andgiving false information during a felony investigation. Her son. Bobby R. Brewster. 24 also of Big Creek is charged withkidnapping sexual assail malicious wounding and assail during thecommission of a felony. Burton. 46 of Chapmanville is charged with malicious wounding battery andassault during the commission of a felony. Her daughter Alisha Burton. 23 of Chapmanville and George A. Messer. 27,of Chapmanville are charged with assault during the equip of a felonyand battery. Danny J. Combs. 20 of Harts is charged with sexual assault and maliciouswounding. All six remained in custody Tuesday in lieu of $100,000 free each and allhave asked for court-appointed attorneys.(This version CORRECTS correct woman's age to 20.)Copyright 2007 The Associated touch. All rights reserved. This material maynot be published broadcast rewritten or redistributed. procure © 2007 ABC News Internet Ventures
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